Tracfone at $100 per year
Several years ago, I tried Sprint, getting appalled at what I called fraud.
Sprint faulted on their homepage's huge advertisement,
they failed to recognize a failed phone I returned even though Sprint paid for the return, their phone response was 20 minutes to 40 minutes,
and they would refuse to resolve issues
-- one empathetic Sprint person said, "It'll be a blue moon before Sprint responds to this [your] submission."
I then tried AT&T.
From my Sprint Fraud website,
I've received email from the main cell phone customers,
distraught over their enormous phone bills -- often of the order $700.
Cell phones aren't like home phones -- why don't people prefer prepaid
service like much of the rest of the world.
Does advertising so beckon, or are Americans so innumerate,
that people in the U.S. can't seek their best interest.
After a year, and being familiar with far less expensive cell phone service outside the U.S., I have now for 5 years used
Tracfone (tracfone.com)
Each year, I pay $100 for their 1 year card with 400 minutes.
I needn't do anything for a whole year, unless I use up all 400 minutes.
I get no monthly bill, and I have no possibility for a $700 cell phone bill.
At these prices, I, my wife, and my child all now have a Tracfone.
I've seen Tracfone in a small section of WalMart, Target, RadioShack, Safeway, CVS, ...
Having started from a Mexican company, Tracfone
provides a less expensive and less frustrating service
than Sprint and other major cell phone carriers.